Religion Around Walter Benjamin / / Brian Britt.

This book shows how institutional religion and the religiosity of political and cultural life provide a necessary dimension to Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers. Lived religion surrounded Benjamin, whose upper-middle-class Jewish family celebrated Christmas and H...

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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]
2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Religion Around
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Physical Description:1 online resource (254 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Thinking with Everyday Religion
  • 2 Benjamin's Berlin
  • 3 Cults of War
  • 4 Religion Around Weimar
  • 5 Habits of Seeing in the End
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index